elegies
- plural of elegy.
Example Sentences
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
Especially via elegies for men lost in battle over the past 250 years, the poems measure and celebrate the cost of nationhood.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.
From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023
They are elegies on the deaths of private persons, a subject on which Malherbe expatiates with the utmost dignity and solemnity.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
